Most of the album tracks are worth hearing/having. With the exception of some of "Synchronicity".
Hidden gems : "Peanuts" (rather obviously about Mick Jagger), "On Any Other Day", "Behind My Camel", "Too Much Information".
― Scott McFarland (Scott McFarland), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Silky Sensor (sexyDancer), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 18:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Spirits In The Material World and Invisible Sun are classic too.
― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link
No, we're mad at Sting because the Police used to be so "BAD-ASS", considering how fucking indisputably CRAP he is now.
Don't tell me how, why, when and what I'm mad at, godfuckingdammitalltohell!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 23 March 2005 20:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 24 March 2005 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Thursday, 13 October 2005 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 13 October 2005 23:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 14 October 2005 01:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 14 October 2005 01:41 (eighteen years ago) link
For all that, the Police were classic!
Great Stewart Copeland interview here, wherein he admits that much of his awesome ride bell playing was overdubbed. Haha!
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Friday, 14 October 2005 02:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Friday, 14 October 2005 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― buboclot, Friday, 14 October 2005 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link
That ain't nothin' new. Copeland was never afraid to use studio technology to build drum tracks. "Every Breath You Take" was half live, half programmed - the kick & snare were Linn Drum, with Copeland overdubbing the high-hat & cymbals seperately.
― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bimble The Nimble, Jumped Over A Thimble! (Bimble...), Saturday, 15 October 2005 02:42 (eighteen years ago) link
auto mash-up !
― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 15 October 2005 02:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Saturday, 15 October 2005 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 15 October 2005 03:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Saturday, 15 October 2005 04:07 (eighteen years ago) link
I thought that song was great when I was about 11, even though I had no idea what he was going on about. By the time I was old enough to realize how silly it was my fondness for it was firmly entrenched. Totally stupid, but not a bad hook. As fake as fake-punk got.
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 15 October 2005 05:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― geoff (gcannon), Saturday, 15 October 2005 05:17 (eighteen years ago) link
Because it's a hopelessly pretentious sack of tepid, runny DUNG wherein Sting grabs an unsuspecting Paul Bowles novel by the sensitive bits, pours syrup all over it and then proceeds to bugger it inconsiderably, whilst coming up with some of the worst couplets of his already pock-marked career. It's AWFUL!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 15 October 2005 05:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― billstevejim (billstevejim), Saturday, 15 October 2005 12:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Very interesting.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 15 October 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link
Then after performing the works of Elizabethan lute master John Dowland for US TV last weekend he was asked about the rumours.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 06:12 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm listening to "Bring On The Night" right now and I'm kinda freaking out about it.
I also just listened to "Born In The 50's." My God. "My mother criedWhen president Kennedy diedShe said it was the communistsBut I knew better"
AGHHHHHHH!
― Davey D (Dave Depper), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 07:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 07:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link
http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn306/Floridian_20/PoliceSynch.jpg
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 10 August 2008 02:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Just about the best mother fucking thing from 1983. Beware. I don't care if John D. jumps on my ass. I really don't care. I'll willingly take a beating for this record.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 10 August 2008 02:13 (fifteen years ago) link
There's a little black spot on the sun today.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 10 August 2008 02:15 (fifteen years ago) link
something i remember: sitting in 8th grade art class and telling john crichton (who wasn't a particular friend of mine, just the kid sitting next to me) that synchronicity was coming out the next day. he looked at me and said "so what?" i said something like the police were the best band in the world and he just kind of shook his head.
in retrospect i think it's the least of the police, but that's a relative measure and i'll defend most of it on one ground or another.
― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 10 August 2008 02:42 (fifteen years ago) link
(but it's not the best thing from '83, even if i thought so then)
― tipsy mothra, Sunday, 10 August 2008 02:43 (fifteen years ago) link
KING OF PAIN
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Sunday, 10 August 2008 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Listen to the fucking BASS on that!
"Synchronicity I" is pretty underrated.. and I still love "Oh My God" and "Tea In The Sahara."
― billstevejim, Sunday, 10 August 2008 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
and then there's 'mother'
― mookieproof, Sunday, 10 August 2008 19:15 (fifteen years ago) link
yup..
"Mother" adds character. Police albums aren't complete without at least 1 huge WTF moment.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 10 August 2008 19:19 (fifteen years ago) link
And I like that "Mother" is in 7/8.
many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the shore of a dark scottish lake many miles away
― kamerad, Sunday, 10 August 2008 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
oh scottish monster please listen don't devour me
― mookieproof, Sunday, 10 August 2008 22:08 (fifteen years ago) link
A prelude to some tantric sex no doubt.
― man in suit and red tie raising his fist (Tom D.), Monday, 4 March 2024 23:15 (one month ago) link
(xp)
he has the strongest unfunny dad persistence, but also can be pretty fucking lol, horrible as it is
― the kwisatz sasquatch (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 00:10 (one month ago) link
lol obsessed much, stu? hilarious
― Reeves Gabrels' Funko Pop (majorairbro), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 00:37 (one month ago) link
I thought we were all well versed in this photo of shirtless sting playing the lute and Trudi doing some yoga pose in the background, alas, I was mistaken. It is the greatest portrait of all time.
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BNg8kFcCUAAdsBP%3Fformat%3Djpg%26name%3Dsmall
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 01:09 (one month ago) link
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 01:10 (one month ago) link
well fuck
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BNg8kFcCUAAdsBP.jpg
― visiting, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 01:17 (one month ago) link
it's time for the 20th anniv of my "if i had no lute" joke
― the kwisatz sasquatch (Hunt3r), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 03:25 (one month ago) link
that's a classic, perhaps only rivaled by the photo of a-rod kissing his own reflection
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 03:29 (one month ago) link
okay Stew making that his background is indeed very funny
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 03:30 (one month ago) link
Chances that he arranged that with the camera crew on purpose ? 75%?
― calstars, Tuesday, 5 March 2024 03:46 (one month ago) link
You don't have to put on the red lute
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 5 March 2024 03:55 (one month ago) link
got that Klark Kent compilation on again, you know what he's annoying but damn he writes really catchy songs. or maybe he just drums in a way that makes everything sound catchy. I mean "Too Kool to Kalypso" says it all - obnoxious vocals, obnoxious lyrics, obnoxious kazoo, but he's a force of nature on the kit and the song will be stuck in your head forever. also love that half this shit was clearly written for Sting
― frogbs, Saturday, 16 March 2024 03:47 (one month ago) link
like c'mon he was wrong to reject this. imagine how good this would've been on Reggatta.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIMitPazAgQ
― frogbs, Saturday, 16 March 2024 03:53 (one month ago) link
If that picture of Sting with the Lute was Dimebag Darrell, it would be him with some crazy Dean lightning bolt guitar at a strip club with an exotic dancer on a riser next to a stripper pole in that pose.
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Saturday, 16 March 2024 14:45 (one month ago) link
like c'mon he was wrong to reject this. imagine how good this would've been on Reggatta.📹
― calstars, Saturday, 16 March 2024 18:59 (one month ago) link
he can rewrite all the lyrics if he wants, the song itself such pure power pop
― frogbs, Sunday, 17 March 2024 16:21 (one month ago) link
Exactly. Police don't do power pop.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 17 March 2024 16:53 (one month ago) link
On the first two albums they sorta did. Which I think is when these songs were written
― frogbs, Sunday, 17 March 2024 16:56 (one month ago) link
Hmm, I still don't hear the power pop. Maybe "Born in the 50's", and if you squint sideways something like "Next to You" miiiiight fit, but you'd have to be pretty generous with what you consider power pop.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 17 March 2024 18:07 (one month ago) link
fuck, i’m like “fall out” is who-style powerpop, and i assumed it was on outlandos, but no. i actually only knew it from an off-the-air recording i made from wlir in 82 of police playing live from like 79. last listened to in the 80s? that memorable? senility?
― ... 2024-- there's one clear winner! (Hunt3r), Sunday, 17 March 2024 22:26 (one month ago) link
Last three tracks on Reggatta are power poppish
― frogbs, Sunday, 17 March 2024 22:28 (one month ago) link